The Quest to Dethrone World of Warcraft

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With it's release in 2004, World of Warcraft changed the MMORPG industry as we know it, and set off a chain of copy-cat MMOs claiming to be "The WoW Killer". This is a brief history of some of those games, and how World of Warcraft changed gaming forever.

00:00 Intro
2:52 Before World of Warcraft
7:38 A New World... of Warcraft
12:26 Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
17:43 Age of Conan
24:05 Star Wars: The Old Republic
30:08 RIFT
34:39 The True "WoW Killer"

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